Chapter 1 Disappeared?

September 2020

"Go, go, go! Get out of here! Those things are catching up!" With one terrified shriek after another, a group of a dozen people scurried through the narrow alleyway.

At the end of the line, about ten meters away, there are 30 to 40 huddled and ragged "people" are staggering behind them in pursuit.

This team of people, both young and old, has been chased for several blocks, physical exhaustion is very serious. But those who seem to walk unsteadily "people" but still maintain the speed always hanging behind their team, as if never tired.

Gu Ning wore a wide gray sportswear that did not fit at all, half pulling and half supporting Gu's mother to run forward desperately, running in the middle of the team position. Because of the violent running, sportswear top pocket fell out of a chocolate, Gu Ning looked at the ground that chocolate glance, eyes full of desire, but curbed their impulse to pick back, continue to run forward. Her right hand is still tightly carrying a watermelon knife nearly half a meter long, covered with gray and black sticky mucus.

The mother of Gu running next to the face white, in fact, has long been difficult to support, legs like lead, just afraid of dragging Gu Ning, gritting his teeth and desperately insist.

Gu Ning looked at the bus parked in front of less than a hundred meters away, the heart floated a trace of joy.

However, is at this moment.

"I can't ... I, I can't run anymore!" A middle-aged woman in the hastily running team shouted and stopped, hands propped up on her knees panting violently, face as white as paper covered with sweat has obviously reached its limit, she originally ran not far behind Gu Ning's position, just her stop, in the blink of an eye, the team was left behind at the end.

"Gu Ning! My mom is behind me!" A girl not far from Gu Ning screamed in panic at Gu Ning!

Gu Ning didn't know how long it had been since she had washed her face, a face that was so gray, almost caked with a thick layer of mud and dirt in some places, it was almost impossible to see the original complexion of her face, she turned her head to take a look, and sure enough, she saw her aunt standing at the end of the line breathing heavily, and the closest zombie to her, was already less than ten meters away. She turned her head to look at the Chinese bus parked a hundred meters away, the fastest runners were already on the bus, Gu Ning turned her head to her mother and said, "Mom, you go to the bus first to meet up with my father, I'll go with my cousin to save my aunt. Come over immediately!"

"Ning Ning, can you help me go? I, my legs are weak ..." The girl is full of panic and helplessness, a face almost crying out of expression.

Gu Ning wanted to say more, but at this time the aunt and uncle are already in critical condition, there is really no time to argue with her, can only bite the bullet and say, "Then you take care of my parents!"

Jiang Yu was busy nodding: "Don't worry! I will definitely take good care of my aunt and uncle!"

"Ning Ning you take care of yourself!" Gu's mother was very worried, but it was impossible to stop Gu Ning from saving her sister-in-law, so she could only watch Gu Ning run that way, and then she was helped by Jiang Yu to continue running forward.

From the beginning of the end of the world to now more than three months have passed, Gu Ning is not the face of the zombie only screaming and fleeing panic girl, in the aunt's terrified scream, she rushed head-on towards the zombie walking in the forefront, while nearly half a meter long watermelon knife in the hand forcefully cut towards the zombie's head!

These zombies are only horrible, disgusting, and then a little stronger, the fastest speed forward is only the speed of a normal person walking quickly, and the head is also much softer than ordinary people, as long as the psychological barriers are overcome, careful not to be bitten, there is nothing to be afraid of. Gu Ning in the heart so once again do mental construction.

A poof - like the sound of breaking open a watermelon, half of the zombie's head was cut off. There is a gray-black with sticky liquid instantly burst out, Gu Ning experienced twisted around, those disgusting slurry just splashed on her clothes.

She didn't pause, her hands gripped the watermelon knife in her hand and plunged it into the belly of the zombie fiercely and vigorously, pushing the female zombie, who was still wearing a full dress but whose face was rotten beyond recognition, back a few steps, then jerked the knife out and plunged it hard into the zombie's only bare eye socket!

The female zombie emitted an inhuman hiss! Then backwards a few steps, hands in the air waving a few times, then fell heavily to the ground, can no longer move.

Gu Ning could not breathe, as if he did not see the wretchedness on his body at all, hurried to help his aunt and uncle who fell softly to the ground, glanced at the group of zombies stumbling more than ten meters away, Gu Ning tightened his eyebrows and warned in a cold voice: "Aunt, if we do not go we both will have to die here!"

Lin Meifeng hurriedly got up from the ground and stumbled forward with the help of Gu Ning.

As if attracted by the screams from this side, more and more zombies appeared in the chasing group.

Lin Meifeng could not help but look back, her legs were a weakness actually kneeled forward, Gu Ning hurriedly helped her up, and then shouted to Jiang Yu, who had already gotten on the bus in front: "Jiang Yu! Quickly come over and bring your mother over!"

Jiang Yu heard Gu Ning shout, originally intended to shrink into the body also awkwardly fixed, the people on the bus are staring at her, she can only run hard to get off the bus towards Gu Ning and Lin Meifeng run.

"Take your aunt to the car first. I'll take the top first!" Gu Ning pushed Lin Meifeng to Jiang Yu, then turned around and gripped the watermelon knife and slashed at the nearest zombie.

"Then you take care of yourself." Jiang Yu said with a shaky voice and walked away without looking back, taking Lin Meifeng with her.

"I'm going down to help Ning Ning!" Gu's father saw that Gu Ning was about to be caught up by the zombies, so he intended to get out of the car to help, but Gu's mother pulled him back: "Your leg injury is not yet healed, so don't go down and add to Ning Ning's mess!" Then he looked out the window nervously.

"Mei Feng are you okay?" Gu's mother took the hand to pull the deflated Lin Meifeng to the car.

Lin Meifeng sitting on the seat, a head of cold sweat, the whole body is trembling, a word can not say out.

"After, behind a lot of zombies chased over ..." Jiang Yu said after entering the carriage with a pale face, after a pause gaze flickered slightly, and said with difficulty: "Gu, Gu Ning seems to have been bitten, I saw blood on her wrist ..."

"What? Then what the hell are you waiting for! Wait for her to get in the car and turn into a zombie to bite us all!" The driver is a young man of 24 or 25 years old, as soon as he heard that Gu Ning was bitten, he immediately wanted to start the car.

"Jiang Yu! What are you talking about?" Jiang Yuezhou, who was lying in the back seat, excitedly drank, and then comforted Gu's parents, Gu's mother, whose faces were white: "Sister and brother-in-law, Ning Ning will be fine."

"But I ... I really saw it ..." Jiang Yu couldn't help but fall into tears when Jiang Yuezhou was yelled at.

"Jiang Yuezhou you have to die! What are you scolding your daughter for!" Lin Meifeng, who just now looked like her breath was dying, exploded: "I saw it too! Gu Ning has a lot of blood on her wrist! If a zombie bites her, none of us will be able to escape!"

"Lin Meifeng!" Gu's mother couldn't stand it anymore and stood up and pointed at Lin Mei Feng's nose and scolded: "Tell me how many times Ning Ning saved you guys along the way! If it wasn't for my Ningning to save you just now, would you still be sitting here yelling? Your conscience is eaten by dogs!"

Gu's mother has always been gentle and soft-spoken, but such a violent outburst stunned the whole car.

"We are a big car, if Gu Ning is really bitten, then we all have to follow you to suffer!" A middle-aged woman in the back row said in a sharp voice.

"That's right! And you did not hear Jiang Yu said, followed by many zombies!" Another middle-aged woman said. But some of the younger generation unanimously remained silent and did not participate.

In the noise, a middle-aged woman in the back seat with a particularly sharp voice dyed with exaggerated red hair called out: "Hey I say! Thanks to you people can say wow! Don't say it was Gu Ning who told us about the zombie outbreak! The car you're riding in now is the same one Gu Ning got! You're tearing the bridge apart!" The young girl with glasses sitting next to her hastily reached out and tugged her, whispering, "Mom, stop it ..."

Someone sneered, "I can't see it! Li Hongjuan, you used to say you were not used to the Gu family posing as cultural people! What! This is the time for you to come out and be a good person! You do not cross the river to tear down the bridge, you do not cross the river to tear down the bridge then you stay here and wait for it?

Li Hongjuan shook off the hand of the young girl next to her, then stood up excitedly and said with her red hair: "One size does not fit all! My life was indeed saved by Gu Ning! And so did you! If you want to wait, let's all wait together! No one can get away!"

"We are all neighbors, we have seen Ning grow up, I am begging you on my knees, just wait for her." Mother Gu cried bitterly and really knelt down.

"I beg you all, please give Ningning a way out!" Gu's father also dragged his injured leg and knelt down.

Some people are a little moved, some people are still indifferent, they have sympathetic expressions on their faces, but their mouths are saying the most indifferent and cruel words: "Old Gu, you do not blame us for being cruel, after all, we all came out of the dead ..."

Gu's mother suddenly seemed to have grabbed the last straw, and shouted at the young man who had been sitting in the seat next to the driver but had never said anything: "Jiazi! Say something for Ningning! You and Ning grew up together, you two have such a good relationship, ah? Everyone is willing to listen to you, Jiazi, you tell them to wait for Ningning!"

Lu Jiazi was looking at Gu Ning who was running this way outside the car, his gaze fell on Gu Ning's hand, which was indeed injured, although he could not be sure if it was a zombie bite, but ...

His gaze flickered slightly: "Sorry, auntie. I can't risk the lives of the whole car." Lu Jiazi closed the window next to him with an apologetic face, then said to the young man driving, "Wang Wei, drive!"

Wang Wei started the car almost immediately.

"You can't drive!" Gu's mother pounced on Wang Wei's hand: "Without the car! My daughter will really have no way to live! Have you forgotten! This car is my daughter's car! My daughter was the one who found those zombies and alerted everyone! You can't be so ungrateful!" She knew that if the car was gone, Gu Ning would not have a chance to live.

The people in the car were quiet for a while.

"You come a few to catch them ah! Is not really all want to want to give Gu Ning to accompany the burial ah!" Wang Wei saw Gu Ning dragging a large pile of zombies behind him, no longer cared about the face, shouted.

The others naturally also saw the group of zombies lumbering this way behind Gu Ning, and immediately did not care about anything else all swarmed Gu's mother and father were dragged back to pressed on the seat. Even the few young men and women who have not squealed have also come up to help hold them down.

The car finally started up smoothly.

Gu's mother was crying and struggling: "Let go of me! You go! Let me out of the car! Our family will die together!"

Gu's father was also pinned down by several men, unable to move at all, and could only plead: "Do us a favor and let us get out of the car, let us die together as a family!"

Li Hongjuan helped Gu's mother break free from those men while cursing, "You people are really eaten by dogs! Even if Gu Ning dies, it's because of you people!"

But no one listened to them, and the car drove away.

Gu Ning stopped in her tracks five meters away from the car and watched as the bus started up in front of her eyes and then raised the dust, and she faintly heard the desperate cries of her parents...

She had a moment as if her brain had gone blank.

The closest zombie to her was only two meters away, and her hand could no longer lift the watermelon knife in her hand.

Half an hour later, a military truck drove by, followed by a burst of gunfire, and the few zombies that lingered over here were instantly shot in the head with unmistakable accuracy.

"Go down and take a look."

The car door was opened and two men wearing military boots and wrapped in thick military uniforms stepped down from the car.

"The knives are neatly cut, and almost all of them are on the head, so I guess they were all cut by one person, really fierce." One of the small curly-haired men wearing white gloves did not mind the disgusting corpses of the zombies at all and examined them carefully.

"Chief! There's a live one over here!" A small soldier pointed to a woman struggling silently not far away and shouted.

"A live one?" The curly-haired man instantly took a sharp step over with a look of interest, and another young man standing elsewhere in uniform followed.

The woman lying on the ground had a dirty face, could not see the original face and age, she was lying on the ground with her body still convulsing from time to time, and there were several bars of well-packaged chocolate scattered around, picked up by a small soldier. The curly-haired man squatted down and reached up to lift the eyelid of her right eye, the white eyeball had red blood lines around the pupil in slow motion, as if it were a living thing, which is a sign of necrophilia. Break her face to the side, and sure enough, I saw a bite wound close to the back of the neck with a blackened wound.

The other uniformed man was the one who saw the watermelon knife she was still holding tightly in her hand, reminiscent of those neatly cut zombie corpses.

The curly-haired man looked at the degree of infection of the woman's wounds and said excitedly, "The infection has been over half an hour, but actually not even fully zombified, good physique, just right for me to use as a test case!"

"Give her a ride." The uniformed man who had been standing nearby without speaking said indifferently.

"Huh? I'm in desperate need of test subjects in my lab to try my new potion!" The curly-haired man glared and said, "It was hard to find a test subject that met the criteria!"

The uniformed man didn't bother to talk to him anymore and pulled out his gun from his waist and aimed at the head of the woman on the ground...

"Bang...!" A gunshot rang out.

After the gunshot, everyone's jaw dropped, looking at the bullet holes in the ground.

The curly-haired man stammered: "Where is she?

Only to see the original place where the woman was lying is now empty, actually in full view of everyone disappeared in thin air!

The uniformed man's eyebrows twitched a few times, yes, indeed, it was just vanished out of thin air. The moment before the bullet shot out of the clip into her eyebrow, disappeared.